Essays. The record obsession / Jeff Gold -- Dreams of vinyl / Jac Holzman -- On the Beatles: Please please me and Joni Mitchell: Blue / Graham Nash -- On Them: The angry young Them and the Mothers of Invention: Freak out / Iggy Pop -- On Pink Floyd: The piper at the gates of dawn ; Bob Dylan: Highway 61 revisited and the Beatles: Revolver / Robyn Hitchcock -- On The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are you experience and Electric Ladyland / Nels Cline -- On the Velvet Underground & Nico: The Velvet Underground & Nico / David Bowie -- On the Beatles: The Beatles (White album) and Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen / Suzanne Vega -- Jimi Hendrix record collector / Jeff Gold -- On Moby Grape: Moby Grape and Love forever changes / Jon Savage -- On Davy Graham: Folk, blues & beyond ; Alexander Spence: Our and Vashti Bunyan: Just another diamond day / Devendra Banhart -- On album cover design / Mick Haggerty -- On the Incredible String Band & Nick Drake / Joe Boyd -- On Iggy and the Stooges: Raw power / Johnny Marr -- On Patti Smith: Horses and record collecting / Peter Buck -- Censored! -- The vinyl mystique / Ken Barnes.